On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 10:27:17PM +0000, g wrote: > when i 'dd' dvd iso to a usb stick, it ran ok, but when trying to > define partition to install to, i keep getting message that drive > was not defined again, even after having wiped sda before running > c7 install, so i exited install. maybe i should not have pre sliced > drive. Could you not see any drives? Or that you there wasn't space to install on that drive? > my thinking shifted from a straight install of c7 to using a fresh > and updated c6 install and run "yum upgrade CentOS-7.0-1406". Upgrading to CentOS7 from CentOS6 isn't as sumple as 'yum upgrade CentOS 7.0-1406'. You need to follow the instructions here: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CentOSUpgradeTool > next i installed c6.4 to sda as sda1= /boot, sda3= swap, sda3= /, > sda5= /home. Why CentOS 6.4? 6.6 is the latest release. There are a bunch of security holes in 6.4's installation media. > so an 'in between' question, how do i go about changing /etc/localtime > so that i can reboot, change bios clock to utc and have desktop show > correct utc-6 time with bios set to utc time? Look in /etc/sysconfig/clock to tell the system that your clock is UTC. The GUI tool 'system-config-date' (in a package with the same name) is a graphical tool for setting date/timezone settings. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>